# Ruby/RoR problem, openssl.so, undefined symbol, update ruby 1.8.7-\>1.9.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 4, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ror-problem-openssl-so-undefined-symbol-update-ruby-1-8-7-1-9-1/156874 "2009-01-04T18:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jukkai\_fi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@jukkai\_fi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jukkai_fi)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ror-problem-openssl-so-undefined-symbol-update-ruby-1-8-7-1-9-1/156874/1 "2009-01-04T18:09:20Z")
Env: SUSE LINUX 10.1 (X86-64) with Ruby 1.8.7-p72, RoR I can get welcome screen, but after that always get Memory Fault Then I installed current stable ruby 1.8.7 (2008-12-29 revision 0) [x86\_64-linux] ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86\_64-linux/ openssl.so: undefined symbol: EVP\_MD\_CTX\_md I founded some ssl.rb test, it give: ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86\_64-linux/ openssl.so: undefined symbol: EVP\_CIPHER\_CTX\_cipher I also installed [http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/download.html](http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/download.html) same error Then installed snapshot ruby 1.9.1 (2009-01-04 patchlevel-5000 trunk 21288) [x86\_64-linux] same problem … I’m real newbie with Ruby/RoR, this was my 1st install (trying) to create RoR environment. After this I updated RoR gem install -v=2.2.2 rails Then rest was …#)&% rails new rails/new\>script/server /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/ active\_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `require': no such file to load -- test/unit/error (MissingSourceFile) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `block in require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active\_support/deprecation.rb:224:in `' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `block in require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new\_constants\_in’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/ lib/active_support.rb:37:in `\’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/ commands/server.rb:1:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/ commands/server.rb:1:in `\’ from script/server:3:in `require' from script/server:3:in `’ Somebody said for me that RoR is nice, maybe ? But heavy job put to work. ---
**Author:** ![jukkai\_fi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@jukkai\_fi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jukkai_fi)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ror-problem-openssl-so-undefined-symbol-update-ruby-1-8-7-1-9-1/156874/2 "2009-01-04T19:22:03Z")
jukkai\_fi wrote: > Env: SUSE LINUX 10.1 (X86-64) > > with Ruby 1.8.7-p72, RoR > I can get welcome screen, but after that always get > Memory Fault > > Then I installed current stable > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-12-29 revision 0) [x86\_64-linux] > ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86\_64-linux/ > openssl.so: undefined symbol: EVP\_MD\_CTX\_md > I founded some ssl.rb test, it give: > ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86\_64-linux/ > openssl.so: undefined symbol: EVP\_CIPHER\_CTX\_cipher Your problem is that the openssl library installed on your system is too old. Update that to the latest version and this problem should go away. ---
**Author:** ![jukkai\_fi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@jukkai\_fi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jukkai_fi)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ror-problem-openssl-so-undefined-symbol-update-ruby-1-8-7-1-9-1/156874/3 "2009-01-04T20:59:40Z")
ROR is great! look more informations about how to install rails…see the following link [http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtosInstallation](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtosInstallation) ---
**Author:** ![jukkai\_fi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@jukkai\_fi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jukkai_fi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ror-problem-openssl-so-undefined-symbol-update-ruby-1-8-7-1-9-1/156874/4 "2009-01-05T18:53:58Z")
> Your problem is that the openssl library installed on your system is too > old. Update that to the latest version and this problem should go away. This was “interesting process” - I hate some distros …, Suse 10.1 is one of those I updated Suse openssl using ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/x86\_64/update/10.2/rpm/x86\_64/ - openssl is about one year old, still same problem with 1.8.7-p72 - then I install also ruby and ruby-dev from suse site ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/x86\_64/update/10.2/rpm/x86\_64/ - it’s 1.8.5, but my ssl.rb test works I also tried openssl using source, but ruby making say something about “use -fPIC flag compiling openssl …” I was used … Now I have some working ruby + RoR environment, even little old. Maybe this is enough for me to test RoR possibilities. I tested also blog, using db postgreSql 8.3.5 - works fine, but encoding set not work … active\_record pg not use database.yum encoding setting ? - edited manually /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/ connection\_adapters utf8 → latin1 and now it works … I think that if your pg instance has created latin1, then database must be also latin1. Ex. sorting and indexing use instance character set and locales Ex. I have created using --locale=fi\_FI --lc-collate=sv\_SE initdb -E LATIN1 --locale=fi\_FI --lc-collate=sv\_SE [http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting\_started\_with\_rails.htm](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started_with_rails.htm) was the most helpful for me to create RoR env and first servers. -jukka-